Improvement in finger-beams for harvesters



UNITED STATES PATENT CEFICE.

v AMos RANK, 0E SALEM, oHIo.

IMPROVEMENT IN FINGER-BEAMS FOR HARVESTERS.

` Specicationforming part of Letters Patent No. 112,629, dated March 14, 1871.

To all zrhom it may concern Bc it known that I, AMOs RANK, of Salem, in the county ofOolumbiana and State of Ohio,

\ `have invented a new and useful Improvement in Finger-Beams for Harvesters, ofwhieh the following is a specification `'llieobject of my invention4 is to secure a light butl strong`-iinger-beam5` to which end "the improvement consists in constructing the `finger-loeam of a harvester of thin sheet'metal to diminish its-weight, and corrugating the beam parallel with its length to secure the necessary degree of stiffness.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a perspectiveview of so much of my improved harvester as is necessary to illus- `trate the invention herein claimed; and Fig. 

